Protesting against Speaker Biman Banerjee's decision to nominate Mukul Roy as the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, BJP MLAs in West Bengal resigned from all the eight standing committees of the Assembly. The BJP legislative party members later met Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar.
There are eight standing committees in the West Bengal state legislature and usually Opposition MLAs are made the chairmen of those committees. On Tuesday, all the eight BJP MLAs, who had been nominated as chairmen of these committees, sent their resignations to the Speaker. The letter stated that following the party's instructions, the MLAs were resigning from the standing committees.
The eight MLAs are Mihir Goswami (estimate), Monoj Tigga (labour), Krishna Kalyani (power and non-conventional energy), Nikhil Ranjan Dey (fisheries), Bishnu Prasad Sharma (PW and PHE), Dipak Barman (information technology and technical education), Ashoke Kirtaniya (subordinate legislature) and Anandomoy Barman (papers laid on the table).